Deconstructing the Treatment Effect of Remdesivir in the Adaptive Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Treatment Trial-1 : Implications for Critical Care Resource Utilization

Published by Oxford University Press for the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2021..

BACKGROUND: The Adaptive Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Treatment Trial-1 (ACTT-1) found that remdesivir therapy hastened recovery in patients hospitalized with COVID-19, but the pathway for this improvement was not explored. We investigated how the dynamics of clinical progression changed along 4 pathways: recovery, improvement in respiratory therapy requirement, deterioration in respiratory therapy requirement, and death.

METHODS: We analyzed trajectories of daily ordinal severity scores reflecting oxygen requirements of 1051 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 who participated in ACTT-1. We developed competing risks models that estimate the effect of remdesivir therapy on cumulative incidence of clinical improvement and deterioration, and multistate models that utilize the entirety of each patient's clinical course to characterize the effect of remdesivir on progression along the 4 pathways above.

RESULTS: Based on a competing risks analysis, remdesivir reduced clinical deterioration (hazard ratio [HR], 0.73; 95% confidence interval [CI]: .59-.91) and increased clinical improvement (HR, 1.22; 95% CI: 1.08, 1.39) relative to baseline. Our multistate models indicate that remdesivir inhibits worsening to ordinal scores of greater clinical severity among patients on room air or low-flow oxygen (HR, 0.74; 95% CI: .57-.94) and among patients receiving mechanical ventilation or high-flow oxygen/noninvasive positive-pressure ventilation (HR, 0.73; 95% CI: .53-1.00) at baseline. We also find that remdesivir reduces expected intensive care respiratory therapy utilization among patients not mechanically ventilated at baseline.

CONCLUSIONS: Remdesivir speeds time to recovery by preventing worsening to clinical states that would extend the course of hospitalization and increase intensive respiratory support, thereby reducing the overall demand for hospital care.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:74

Enthalten in:

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 74(2022), 12 vom: 06. Juli, Seite 2209-2217

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Fintzi, Jonathan [VerfasserIn]
Bonnett, Tyler [VerfasserIn]
Sweeney, Daniel A [VerfasserIn]
Huprikar, Nikhil A [VerfasserIn]
Ganesan, Anuradha [VerfasserIn]
Frank, Maria G [VerfasserIn]
McLellan, Susan L F [VerfasserIn]
Dodd, Lori E [VerfasserIn]
Tebas, Pablo [VerfasserIn]
Mehta, Aneesh K [VerfasserIn]

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415SHH325A
Adenosine Monophosphate
Alanine
Antiviral Agents
Clinical Trial
Clinical progression
Critical care
Journal Article
Multistate models
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Oxygen
Remdesivir
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
Respiratory therapies
S88TT14065

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Date Completed 08.07.2022

Date Revised 01.07.2023

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1093/cid/ciab712

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM329534742